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Date Posted: 12:52:04 01/07/03 Tue
Author: ericalper
Subject: Re: What's meant by the line 'tonight thank god it's them instead of you'?
In reply to: Jumbo 's message, "What's meant by the line 'tonight thank god it's them instead of you'?" on 07:53:39 12/20/02 Fri

I took it as a typical NIMBY response - thank God WE don't have those racial problems, thank God WE don't live like our neighbours. It's a use in songwriting to change the perspective without letting the listener know you've done that, from a third party, to Bono taking the role of the person talking. tt's an amazing line, and one of the best in the song, putting it back in our faces for us to dwell on people (maybe even us) who have said that very same thing while watching the news of famine.

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